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Hue was the third biggest city in South Vietnam, and had remained largely untouched by the war. The Tet Offensive changed that. The North Vietnamese infiltrated Hue with two regiments, and attacked on January 31, 1968. Initially the attack went …

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Hue was the third biggest city in South Vietnam, and had remained largely untouched by the war. The Tet Offensive changed that. The North Vietnamese infiltrated Hue with two regiments, and attacked on January 31, 1968. Initially the attack went well, but it wasn't long before the Americans had amassed a counterattack force. The Americans first serious attack came on February 4th in the area south of Perfume River titled New Town. The U.S. Marines were sent to clear the VC from the government buildings including Quoc Hoc High School.

Hue, South Vietnam

The Battle of Hue (31 January 1968 – 2 March 1968), also called the Siege of Hue, was a major military engagement in the Tet Offensive launched by North Vietnam and the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War. After initially losing control of most of Hue and its surroundings, the combined South Vietnamese and American forces gradually recaptured the city over one month of intense fighting. The battle was one of the longest and bloodiest of the war, and the battle negatively affected American public perception of the war. By the beginning of the North Vietnamese Tet Offensive on 30 January 1968, which coincided with the Vietnamese Tet Lunar New Year, large conventional American forces had been committed to combat operations on Vietnamese soil for almost three years.

Wikipedia: Battle of Hue

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